Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Future Gravitational-Wave Detector Facilities

Kavli Affiliate: Peter Fritschel | First 5 Authors: Stefan W. Ballmer, Rana Adhikari, Leonardo Badurina, Duncan A. Brown, Swapan Chattopadhyay | Summary: The next generation of gravitational-wave observatories can explore a wide range of fundamental physics phenomena throughout the history of the universe. These phenomena include access to the universe’s binary black hole population throughout […]


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Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Future Gravitational-Wave Detector Facilities

Kavli Affiliate: Salvatore Vitale | First 5 Authors: Stefan W. Ballmer, Rana Adhikari, Leonardo Badurina, Duncan A. Brown, Swapan Chattopadhyay | Summary: The next generation of gravitational-wave observatories can explore a wide range of fundamental physics phenomena throughout the history of the universe. These phenomena include access to the universe’s binary black hole population throughout […]


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Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition with Exotic Higgs Decays

Kavli Affiliate: Marcela Carena | First 5 Authors: Marcela Carena, Jonathan Kozaczuk, Zhen Liu, Tong Ou, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf | Summary: An essential goal of the Higgs physics program at the LHC and beyond is to explore the nature of the Higgs potential and shed light on the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. An important […]


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Current Status and Future Prospects for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Torsten Åkesson, Nikita Blinov, Lukas Brand-Baugher, Cameron Bravo, Lene Kristian Bryngemark | Summary: The constituents of dark matter are still unknown, and the viable possibilities span a vast range of masses. The physics community has established searching for sub-GeV dark matter as a high priority and identified […]


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Current Status and Future Prospects for the Light Dark Matter eXperiment

Kavli Affiliate: Gordan Krnjaic | First 5 Authors: Torsten Åkesson, Nikita Blinov, Lukas Brand-Baugher, Cameron Bravo, Lene Kristian Bryngemark | Summary: The constituents of dark matter are still unknown, and the viable possibilities span a vast range of masses. The physics community has established searching for sub-GeV dark matter as a high priority and identified […]


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Design and Performance of the Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Camera

Kavli Affiliate: Scott P. Wakely | First 5 Authors: Colin B. Adams, Giovanni Ambrosi, Michelangelo Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, Timothy Arlen | Summary: The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a candidate for a medium-sized telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The pSCT is based on a novel dual mirror optics design which reduces the plate scale […]


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Inflation: Theory and Observations

Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | First 5 Authors: Ana Achúcarro, Matteo Biagetti, Matteo Braglia, Giovanni Cabass, Robert Caldwell | Summary: Cosmic inflation provides a window to the highest energy densities accessible in nature, far beyond those achievable in any realistic terrestrial experiment. Theoretical insights into the inflationary era and its observational probes may […]


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Inflation: Theory and Observations

Kavli Affiliate: W. L. Kimmy Wu | First 5 Authors: Ana Achúcarro, Matteo Biagetti, Matteo Braglia, Giovanni Cabass, Emanuele Castorina | Summary: Cosmic inflation provides a window to the highest energy densities accessible in nature, far beyond those achievable in any realistic terrestrial experiment. Theoretical insights into the inflationary era and its observational probes may […]


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Snowmass White Paper: The Cosmological Bootstrap

Kavli Affiliate: Austin Joyce | First 5 Authors: Daniel Baumann, Daniel Green, Austin Joyce, Enrico Pajer, Guilherme L. Pimentel | Summary: This white paper summarizes recent progress in the cosmological bootstrap, an approach to the study of the statistics of primordial fluctuations from consistency with unitarity, locality and symmetry assumptions. We review the key ideas […]


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Data Preservation for Cosmology

Kavli Affiliate: Brian Nord | First 5 Authors: Marcelo Alvarez, Stephen Bailey, Deborah Bard, Lisa Gerhardt, Julien Guy | Summary: We describe the needs and opportunities for preserving cosmology datasets and simulations, and facilitating their joint analysis beyond the lifetime of individual projects. We recommend that DOE fund a new cosmology data archive center to […]


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